Update: The Tennessee Volunteers baseball team had the last laugh after Lane Kiffin’s juvenile tweet, as they forced a winner-take-all Game 3 against the Texas A&M Aggies in the 2024 College World Series Championship Finals, winning 4-1. Be on the look out for a clap-back tweet from the official Tennessee Baseball account if they prevail.
Lane Kiffin has done a heck of a job with the Ole Miss Rebels. He also loves to troll SEC schools and their fans.
Generally, it’s all in good fun. When he goes after fellow SEC head coaches, like he did recently with the LSU Tigers’ Brian Kelly and Missouri Tigers’ Eliah Drinkwitz for their awkward recruiting dance moves, it’s fair game.
That’s not the case childishly going after the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team with his tweet AFTER their Game 1 loss, 9-5, to the Texas A&M Aggies in the best-of-three 2024 Men's College World Series Championship Finals.
Good luck guys !! Get off to a great start. ⚾️🔥 @Vol_Baseball https://t.co/OqqsVItJMz
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) June 23, 2024
Kiffin, entering his fifth season at Ole Miss as head coach, has a ton of hype and expectations for his Rebels this college football season, fresh off their record-setting 11-2 season, and a preseason composite No. 5 ranking.
So why poke the bear? Sure, it’s easy to do when the Rebels don’t play the Vols in the regular season. And it’s obvious Kiffin still has ill will towards Tennessee after his tumultuous single season as head coach in 2009. (Although didn’t he ditch them for the USC Trojans?)
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Kiffin also displayed more bitterness by sharing a story last month of the Vols allegedly attempting to steal an Ole Miss recruit.
So then to get back at the Tennessee college football team, he goes after the baseball squad in the CWS finals? It’s petty. The replies to his tweet predominantly agree with that sentiment, and most weren’t suited for this story. A sampling below.
Lane Kiffin
— EdeyMuse (@EdeyMuse) June 23, 2024
Occupations
1. HC Ole Miss football
2. Twitter troll
Dude you had you chance to be loved by this fan base and you left after one season. Sit this one out.
— Thomas Maner (@ThatTommyGuy) June 23, 2024
Be better Coach.
— Marshall Griffin🍊 (@Marshal85897970) June 23, 2024
In the end, Kiffin is putting an extra burden on his players. Winning the offseason doesn’t mean much, especially in a loaded SEC.